The Flood MUST return in the new Halo Trilogy

not just because they're awesome, but because it is PLOT essential

Editorial Opinion
By GoodLuckTroll - Dec 16, 2011 02:12 PM EST
Filed Under: Video Games

you know the Flood right? cute little octopus things, crawling inside you, suddenly there's nasty tentacles sprouting from your limbs and chest...i love these space zombies (as one might put it)

so, Halo 3. Master Chief fired the Halo ring and killed the Flood off for good. right? WRONG!!!

let's go back to Halo 2.
on the second Halo ring, Installation 05, the flood broke out again. they manage to take over High Charity, the Covenant't Holy City.
Cortana stays on high charity to destroy it, with the flood, should the Halo ring fire...the ring does not fire, and thus high charity isn't destroyed, blah blah blah, ends up on the Ark in Halo 3

NOW. surely not all the flood went to the Ark. surely some of them stayed behind on the second ring, making themselves feel right at home.

so you see. Bungie left out a plot that i think should be accessed in the new reclaimer Trilogy. a Halo Ring completely taken over by the Flood. not just the ring. the planet the ring was orbiting around ((they do orbit, right?)) should be affected by the Flood as well. how? well, the Flood have a knack for reanimating space shuttles, surely their must of been a few crashed Covenant ships or dropships from both sides left on the ring, giving them the chance to travel to the planet. and not just for travelling to the planet, but is it possible they can use whatever ships that are left on the ring to form a small fleet, or even learn how to form their own organic ships if they haven't already.

and speaking of reanimating veichles, is it possible the Flood can reanimate robots...say, the sentinels for example.
in Halo 2, we encountered a new kind of sentinels...the big ones (for lack of proper word). now, wouldn't they be large enough for the Flood to reanimate? what kind of chaos could they cause with that? Giant, flying floods? or even the mysterious Flood juggernaut, an enemy that was dropped from Halo 2. i'd
like to go one on one with that ugly thing.

Finally, what kind of power can the Flood have when in control of an entire Halo Ring. could they modify it's weaponry systems? highly unlikely they'd fire the ring to infect the entire universe, but it's a thought.

so, put simple. Cortana didn't destroy the second Halo Ring, Flood take over said ring, travel to planet, take that over as well. now they got their own planet and a Halo Ring, Master Chief has to return here before the Flood create an army to infect all Human/Alien life as we know it.

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sonofsamadams
sonofsamadams - 12/16/2011, 4:19 PM
No, no, no!

This new Halo trilogy needs to have a new point to it; the flood is the past. The makers need to develop a rich story that turns into a remarkable gameplay. I loved the trilogy, but grew tired of the flood. I'll be interested to see where they go, but I doubt they'll have the flood.
gamecreatorjj
gamecreatorjj - 12/16/2011, 6:02 PM
the trilogy looks to be forerunner focused, sigma 7 looks alot like a forunner planet/base, the planet seen was almost enitirely tech, so im guessing if there are zombies, they would be nano related
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 12/17/2011, 4:58 AM
The Flood were cool, but their story is over. I'm with sonofsamadams. This new trilogy needs to go in a new direction and not rehash anything old. There have been 5 Halo games (1,2,3, Reach, and Halo Wars) and all but Reach were centered around the Flood and Covenant.

We need to see something new, and like gamecreatorjj said, it looks to be about the forerunners. Not only the trailer kinda looks that way, but in Reach, if you collect all the hidden diaries that tell a story, its sounds like its written by some secret society of AI created by the Forerunners, or the Forerunners themselves.

Anyway, there needs to be new villains to fight, and as cool as the Flood were, they really just came running at you headlong, they really weren't that difficult.
gloomypatrick
gloomypatrick - 12/17/2011, 5:08 AM
The flood that were left on the alpha halo aka second halo were all but destroyed the remaining elites stay to quaritine the halo thats why in halo 3 that flood ship appered on earth and if u listen the elites say that as they were doing this one ship got throw so in saying all thats remains of the flood would be left on the inactive halo rings and i dont think they would be much of a treat
GoodLuckTroll
GoodLuckTroll - 12/17/2011, 5:20 AM
hmm, you make valid points. but still, the Flood had to come from somewhere right? where is THEIR homeworld?
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 12/17/2011, 10:48 AM
@ goodlucktroll

if you haven't played Reach, check it out, and try to find the hidden journals. you can actually read them online too. The journals pretty much set up the story for the next trilogy. Its a triumvirate of AI discussing all of the events as they happened leading up to the Halo trilogy. Its pretty interesting, but the important thing is that they are manipulating things from behind the scenes.

The Flood could very easily have been a bioweapon, therefore having no homeworld.
TheMadman
TheMadman - 12/17/2011, 10:50 AM
I agree with CorndogBurglar - although I'd like to point one little error out. There are 6 Halo games. 1, 2, 3, Wars, ODST, and Reach.
GoodLuckTroll
GoodLuckTroll - 12/17/2011, 2:55 PM
a bioweapon? i kinda wondered if the Flood were in fact artificially born. but the Halo Legends Animated story shows them to have come from somewhere. although, before the Forerunners there were the Precursors, so perhaps they could have spawned the Flood.

Actually, i think the Flood will return in the Reclaimer Trilogy because: the setting for Halo 4 is on and possibly inside a Forerunner planet, a Shieldworld to be precise. one of these was the setting for Halo Wars, and the Flood were present on that...i'm just sayin
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